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Mon, 20 Mar 2006
[15:53] Birthdays and Listening Posts
Yes, that's right, you forgot my birthday (I'm looking at you Don). I turned the big 2 9 on the 17th! For the most part t'was a day like any other - I got an exciting pressie when I got up, a nice black t-shirt with the words:
One by one the penguins steal my sanity
bannered across the front! I then went to work and did stuff and came home. It got more interesting from there:
We ventured out into Ye Olde London Towne, ostensibly to go and fetch the latest edition of 2600 which you can now only get from the Virgin store in Piccadilly Circus. We descended to the bowels of the store, where they keep the magazines and the DVDs (this is where it gets exciting folks), I went and fetched my mag whilst Shona did some browsing, she found......
I've been trying to find that for AGES! We spent then next half-hour or so marvelling at all the other cool stuff that was down there before heading upstairs to pay. This is when cool thing number two happened (I apologise if this is horrendously old and passe now but I don't get out much, and I spend money even less). Since we emerged into the CD section we had a bit of a browse around. As is always the way, you find something(s) that you think you might like but you want to listen to. I always hate asking because the staff wherever I happen to be generally are quite surly about having to dig up the CD just so I can listen to it and then you have to brave the "evil stare" when you say "Actually, I don't really like that". But I found something and I took it to the guys and he showed me how the listening posts work.
Basically you pick a post, scan your CD and it gets looked up in the database. They then play 30 second clips of each song. 30 seconds isn't the greatest but you can scan ANY CD IN THE SHOP and listen to it! I spent some considerable time hunting out "obscure" CDs just to verify this. The only things I couldn't get to play were my Trapdoor DVD and magazine. I don't know how long they've had this but I think it is very, very cool! We're heading back next weekend with a big ole list of things to listen too!
After escaping the consumer-paradise of Virgin we wandered the St Patricks day reveller-rammed streets looking for somewhere to eat. We eventually settled on a hole in the wall called Mr Wus because it was all-you-can-eat for £4.50, hoorah. The food was actually pretty good and we decided to walk home to walk off dinner (stopping only for a lemon sorbet from the gelato shop on the Strand). Good time had by all! A quick tangent on the subject of grub: I had to work Saturday (as with all Saturdays before it) but too make up for this injustice we've been working our way up Shoreditch Road (near where I work) every weekend for lunch. This weekend we found the BEST Vietnamese joint (we've tried one every weekend for the last month). It's called Song Que and they make the best Pho in this damn place, and they have those wacky Vietnamese desserts! More here.
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